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 Biography of A(rthur) J(ames) M(arshall) Smith
2,697 words, approx. 9 pages
 In 1976 at Michigan State University, American and Canadian scholars and poets gathered to honor A. J. M. Smith, seventy-four-year-old doyen of Canadian letters. It is fitting that such a symposium should have been held at an American university, for... 
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 A. J. M. Smith Information
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 Arthur James Marshall Smith (November 8, 1902 – November 21, 1980) was a Canadian poet. Born in Montreal, he became a student at McGill University. While a student there in 1925 he founded the McGill Fortnightly Review alongside F.R. Scott. The Review...
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 The Virginian Pilot Christopher J. Smith.
01/30/2007: 393 words, approx. 1 pages VIRGINIA BEACH -- VIRGINIA BEACH - Christopher John Smith, 46, went to his second life in heaven Jan. 28, 2007, following a grueling three-year fight with Multiple System Atrophy (Shy Drager Syndrome). He was surrounded by those who loved him: his wife of 18... summary from source:
The Virginian Pilot S.j. Smith.(local)
03/29/1996: 433 words, approx. 1 pages VIRGINIA BEACH -- S.J. ''Joe'' Smith, 75, former sheriff of the City of Virginia Beach, died March 28, 1996, after a brief illness. Mr. Smith was born in Suffolk and spent his life serving his country, state, city, and church. He was a...
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 Critical Essay by I. S. Maclaren
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Certainly the one hundred pieces [in Poems New and Collected] show Smith to be a chameleon—he can viciously dismiss the vacuity of 'popular poetry', he can articulate his committment to sing the "lonely music" or to encounter "voluptuous" death, and yet he can delight his reader with such flippant remarks as: McLuhan put his telescope to his ear;
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Critical Essay by Milton Wilson
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Certainly you don't have to talk to Smith for long to realize that he relishes the thought of being odd classical man out in a society of romantics, and, from the jacket blurb of his Collected Poems, we once again learn, presumably with the author's sanction, that he knows how to be "austerely classic" in his own graceful way. It's something of a let-down to discover how merely Parnassian or decadent or imagistic his classicism can be. (pp. 11-12) More obtrusive and far le... summary from source:
Critical Essay by A.j.m. Smith
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When I write a poem I try to know what I am doing—at least with respect to craft. Luck is needed too, of course, and luck is unpredictable. All I know about it is that it has to be earned. Everything beneath the surface of technique remains obscure. It is this subterranean world … I shall try to explore in these very tentative notes. (p. 20) I do not believe in progress in the ordinary sense of the word. The more recent poems in [Collected Verse] are neither "better" nor "...
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